User:Lindsey.Goldsby/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Spongia officinalis


 * Article Evaluation
 * It has a good start that does not seem biased or incorrect, but it is very short.


 * Sources
 * Baldacconi, Rossella, et al. "Transplantation of Spongia officinalis L.(Porifera, Demospongiae): a technical approach for restocking this endangered species." Marine Ecology 31.2 (2010): 309-317.
 * Pronzato, Roberto. "Sponge‐fishing, disease and farming in the Mediterranean Sea." Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 9.5 (1999): 485-493.
 * Stabili, Loredana, et al. "Filtering activity of Spongia officinalis var. adriatica (Schmidt)(Porifera, Demospongiae) on bacterioplankton: implications for bioremediation of polluted seawater." Water research 40.16 (2006): 3083-3090.
 * Pronzato, Roberto, and Renata Manconi. "Mediterranean commercial sponges: over 5000 years of natural history and cultural heritage." Marine Ecology 29.2 (2008): 146-166.
 * Gaino, Elda, et al. "Mortality of commercial sponges: incidence in two Mediterranean areas." Italian Journal of Zoology 59.1 (1992): 79-85.
 * Gifford, Scott, et al. "Aquatic zooremediation: deploying animals to remediate contaminated aquatic environments." TRENDS in Biotechnology 25.2 (2007): 60-65.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Leucochloridium variae


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is a bit more developed than the first one, but it still needs more information. It does seem well-cited so far and doesn't seem biased.


 * Sources
 * Lewis Jr, Paul D. "Helminths of terrestrial molluscs in Nebraska. II. Life cycle of Leucochloridium variae McIntosh, 1932 (Digenea: Leucochloridiidae)." The Journal of parasitology (1974): 251-255.
 * Fried, Bernard, and Warren Guy. "The use of a computer program to analyze growth of Leucochloridium variae McIntosh, 1932 (Trematoda) in the domestic chick." International journal for parasitology 4.1 (1974): 73-77.
 * BAKKE, TOR A. "The Morphology and Taxonomy of Leucochloridium (L.) variae Mclntosh (Digenea, Leucochloridiidae) from the Nearctic as Revealed by Light and Scanning Electron Microscopy." Zoologica Scripta 11.2 (1982): 87-100.
 * Fried, Bernard, and T. K. Graczyk. "An overview of the biology of trematodes." Advances in trematode biology (1997): 1-10.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Placentonema gigantissima


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is very short. It only has one reference. It needs a lot of work.


 * Sources
 * Gubanov, N. M. "A giant nematode from the placenta of cetaceans Placenttnema gigantissima ngn sp." Doklady Akademii nauk SSSR 77.6 (1951): 1123-1125.
 * Dailey, Murray D., and Wolfgang Vogelbein. "Parasite fauna of 3 species of Antarctic whales with reference to their use as potential stock indicators." Fishery Bulletin 89.3 (1991): 355.
 * Nielsen, Claus. "Sequences lead to tree of worms." Nature 392.6671 (1998): 25-25.
 * Lambertsen, Richard H. "Natural disease problems of the sperm whale." Biologie 67.Supplement (1997): 105-112.
 * Manzanilla-López, Rosa H., and David J. Hunt. "Tropical plant and soil nematodes: diversity and interactions." Tropical Biology and Conservation Management, Volume VI, Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (2009): 64-98.